Apple Podcast Rankings - France - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in France

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in France. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 14 Jan 2026

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01/14/2026

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Episodes: 127

Frequency: every 20 days

Duration: 00:31:20

Top 5 authors

1. Louie Media (4 shows)

2. RTBF (3 shows)

3. RTL (3 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Nouvelles Écoutes (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (23 shows)

2. Audiomeans (23 shows)

3. Ausha (11 shows)

4. Spotify for Podcasters (8 shows)

5. Megaphone (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	212	Acast	79
2	Ça peut vous arriver	RTL	Society & Culture	133	Audiomeans	49
3	Archives	Neoxi	Society & Culture	69	Spotify for Podcasters	28
4	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	75	Megaphone	62
5	Une lettre d'Amérique	RTL	Society & Culture	101	Audiomeans	54
6	Le bureau des complots	RTBF	Society & Culture	52	Audiomeans	73
7	Injustices	Louie Media	Society & Culture	60	Acast	73
8	La fabrique du mensonge	France Télévisions	Society & Culture	39	Octopus	59
9	Destins Extraordinaires	Europe1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
10	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	533	Audion	58
11	La société de minuit	Tatiana Benhamou	Society & Culture	100	Acast	73
12	Les Enfermé·es	Making Waves	Society & Culture	9	Transistor	59
13	Ou peut-être une nuit	Louie Media	Society & Culture	6	Acast	69
14	Le monde selon Trump	BFMTV	Society & Culture	29	Simplecast	49
15	Le piège : dans les coulisses du développement personnel	RTBF	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	73
16	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
17	Tous Parano	Tous Parano	Society & Culture	59	Podcastics	89
18	Lucky Boy \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	119	Acast	73
19	La Jeune Rue	Nouvelles Ecoutes	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
20	L'Affaire	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	73	Acast	79
21	Dark Stories	Dark Stories	Society & Culture	160	Spotify for Podcasters	28
22	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	21	RSS.com	48
23	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Mythologie Grecque Décomplexée	Society & Culture	75	Spotify for Podcasters	22
24	Off Investigation - Les coulisses de la politique	Jean-Baptiste Rivoire	News	32	Ausha	89
25	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	937	Simplecast	38
26	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	369	Omny Studio	73
27	Un jour, un doc	RTL	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	43
28	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
29	La Minute Géographie	La Minute Géographie	Society & Culture	24	Spotify for Podcasters	22
30	PRESS ROOM	Esther Press Room	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	94
31	L'autre assemblée	CESE	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	84
32	Soif de Sens \| Écologie	Pierre Chevelle \| Écologie	Science	766	Audiomeans	74
33	In Tenebris	Marine Benoit	Society & Culture	24	Acast	84
34	OÙ EST LE BEAU ?	Hélène Aguilar	Society & Culture	516	Audiomeans	84
35	La dame du CDI	Nathanael	Society & Culture	28	Spotify for Podcasters	38
36	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
37	Happy End	Sarah Dumont	Society & Culture	34	Podcastics	63
38	Anaïs Lenar	Anaïs Lenar	Society & Culture	22	Acast	58
39	Le Roi des Monstres	École normale supérieure - PSL	Society & Culture	3	Acast	69
40	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
41	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	98	BBC	53
42	Au cœur des archives	Europe 1	Society & Culture	100	Audiomeans	59
43	Il suffit d'écouter les femmes	INA	Society & Culture	6	Octopus	59
44	Blast - Infernet	Pacôme Thiellement, Blast le souffle de l’info	Society & Culture	11	Transistor	59
45	Maisons hantées, Fantômes et Revenants : Rendez-vous avec l’Étrange	RTBF	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	73
46	La vie sans filtre - Les Podcasts Macif	Les Podcasts Macif	Society & Culture	40	Audiomeans	83
47	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	489	Megaphone	63
48	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	9	ART19	69
49	Le Procès Harelle	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	53
50	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	17	Acast	59
51	Comique !	Ghislain Blique	Comedy	58	Acast	49
52	Les mille et une vies de Sign	Karim Boukercha	Society & Culture	11	RedCircle	48
53	Bref, l’effondrement.	Cyril Hique	Society & Culture	45	Ausha	43
54	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	705	Megaphone	53
55	Free From Desire	Aline Laurent-Mayard	Society & Culture	17	Acast	79
56	La Machine à écrire	Yannick Lejeune et Mike Cesneau	Society & Culture	32	Ausha	84
57	Law Enforcement Talk: True Crime and Trauma Stories	John "Jay" Wiley	Society & Culture	605	Omny Studio	59
58	Être infirmier(ère)	Réussis ton IFSI	Society & Culture	19	Spotify for Podcasters	53
59	Remonter la piste	Nastasia Time	Society & Culture	11	Spotify for Podcasters	63
60	La Politique des putes	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	10	Audiomeans	73
61	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	47	Megaphone	48
62	Jay Shetty - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	76	Spreaker	69
63	Entre	Louie Media	Society & Culture	61	Acast	94
64	Lucky Boy	Gary Marshall	Documentary	6	N/A	N/A
65	CANAL 16	SNSM	Society & Culture	38	Acast	79
66	Maison Radieuse, premières années	ECPAD	Society & Culture	6	Podcastics	69
67	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	439	Acast	74
68	Créations originales	StudioFact Audio	Society & Culture	20	Audiomeans	79
69	Présence \| Radiola	Radiola	Society & Culture	218	Unknown	43
70	The Harvard Plan	The Boston Globe	Society & Culture	8	Megaphone	63
72	Une Autre Agriculture	Château Cheval Blanc	Society & Culture	21	Acast	84
73	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	379	Spreaker	84
74	Emma Chamberlain - Biography Flash	Inception Point Ai	Society & Culture	77	Spreaker	69
75	Afterres2050	AFTERRES	Society & Culture	4	Ausha	69
76	À Brûler Sans Ouvrir	Nouvelles Écoutes	Society & Culture	13	Audiomeans	83
77	Expertes à la Une	Christelle Chiroux, TF1 Info	Society & Culture	54	Audiomeans	64
78	A bout de Taf	Laure Girardot & Boutayna Burkel	Society & Culture	81	Acast	69
79	Journal Intime	Paradiso Media	Society & Culture	42	Acast	89
80	PRÉSENT RECOMPOSÉ	ADD ASSOCIES	Society & Culture	8	Ausha	74
81	Alain face à Duhamel	BFMTV, BFM	Society & Culture	6	Simplecast	59
82	BXL 1001 VIES	Studio Balado	Society & Culture	10	Acast	79
83	IMPACT POSITIF - les solutions existent	LCI - Sylvia Amicone	Society & Culture	200	Audiomeans	59
84	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	228	PRX	79
85	Beyond the Veil - un podcast sur la mort	Virginie Barba	Society & Culture	26	Ausha	78
86	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	140	Megaphone	68
87	Hop Eloquence	Corentin Eveno	Society & Culture	6	Ausha	43
88	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	170	BBC	38
89	This Is Actually Happening	Audible	Society & Culture	527	ART19	68
90	Embarquement immédiat - Histoire de crash	Karine de Falchi	Society & Culture	20	Ausha	58
91	The Broken Truth \| History Podcast	Garrett Greene	Society & Culture	54	Spotify for Podcasters	32
92	Glitch, devenir handi.e	La Clameur Podcast Social Club	Society & Culture	5	podCloud	84
93	"J'AI HARCELÉ"	LACMÉ	Society & Culture	7	Audiomeans	59
94	Une histoire, une vie	Aymeric	Society & Culture	28	Ausha	73
95	Le monstre du Loudness - Le podcast d'Acoustik L'école 100% Son -	Acoustik L'école 100% Son	Society & Culture	14	Ausha	48
96	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	12	Acast	63
97	Au rayon séries	Emmanuel Taïeb	Society & Culture	22	Audiomeans	53
98	Le Dernier Verre	Marianne Moing	Society & Culture	5	RSS.com	58
99	Oh my planète	ADEME	Society & Culture	41	Audiomeans	79
100	1940, Winston devient Churchill	Creation Collective / Binge Audio	Society & Culture	9	Audiomeans	48

Understanding Podcast Rankings and Trends in France

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